Sunlight slants through a leaded casement window onto one of East Sussex's most storied interiors — the so-called Haunted Room of the Mint House, Pevensey, where a bronze equestrian statuette of a woman at full gallop stands atop a dark oak chest of drawers, flanked by decorative plates, gilt-framed pictures, and a ceramic charger above the fireplace beam. The Mint House is a medieval merchant's house in the ancient Roman and Norman town of Pevensey, reputedly haunted by the ghost of a young woman — lending this spare, atmospheric room its spine-tingling name. This real-photograph postcard captures the room with the stillness of a long exposure, the angled light and deep shadows giving it genuine mood. The reverse follows the pre-1902 / transitional undivided-back format with separate inland (½d) and foreign (1d) stamp instructions, placing it firmly in the Edwardian golden age of picture postcards.